<div dir="ltr"><div><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Hey fellow birders,</p><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">I just wanted to alert you all to my newest venture studying amazing birds at Danum Valley in Borneo. I've launched a Kickstarter campaign <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/babandbul/the-babbler-and-bulbul-project">The Babbler & Bulbul Project</a> featuring my pics and field stories, with lots more to come!</p><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><br></p><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><strong>Tired of artificial intelligence, virtual reality, embattled models,
litigious simulations, and the whole extortion lifestyle?  Plain exhausted
and yearning for a good ol' reality check?</strong></p>

<p style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">This is it: Join our team on our first field season tagging wild forest
birds at Danum Valley, one of the richest lowland rainforests in Southeast Asia
on the Island of Borneo!  </p>

<p style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">No simulations, no models, just real stuff: real birds, real data, real
photographs, real challenges, real stories--and real people using real
intelligence to collaborate across countries, cooperate across cultures, and
conduct fundamental research for basic science--to better understand our world
and the creatures that actually live here.</p>

<p style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Traditional scientific funding is under new scrutiny.  This is your
chance to support innovative and collaborative research with deep content.
 The birds are spectacular, the forest context is unique--and the
authentic challenges and difficulties we face are better than, well, scripted
reality shows!</p>

<p style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Check out our project (involves four Washington birders this year!), sign up
for our blog and check out the original art, science-based classes on birds and
birding, or field trips with Dan Froehlich, ornithologist and tour guide.</p><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Cheers,</p><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Dan </p><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><br></p></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Dan Froehlich<div>Poulsbo, WA</div><div>USA</div><div>Go <a href="https://ebird.org/profile/MzAyNDkz/world" target="_blank">eBird</a>ing!</div><div><a href="http://linkedin.com/in/dan-froehlich-96150967" target="_blank">LinkedIn<br></a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>